HOLY MACKERAL

My opening in London on 18 September , 2008 happened to be in the middle of the Lehman crash--signaling the ensuing crash worldwide, but also adjacent to the strange Sotheby's Hirst auction of sharks and stuff. Having exhibited rotting meat in 1970 at the Sigi Krauss Gallery in Covent Garden I was not a stranger to organic mediums. Anyway, I went to Tesco that day and saw canned mackeral on sale for 32p. This was a fantastic bargain since Sotheby's had just sold a shark for nine million pounds. I bought six cans and stuck them on gold painted canvas in the form of a cross, thus creating a work called Holy Mackeral. I presented it at my opening to the merriment of my friends and guests.